The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-10-26
New Publications.

AMONG late publications of Cassell & Co.
are Dead Mans Rock" novel by a
writer who hides his identity behind sim
pie Co. Pen Portraits of Literary
Women" by Helen Guy Cone and
Jeanette l.. Glider, and Captain Collins
"reminiscences of Yachts and Yachting"
The pathetic story of Jack, the Fisher
man." by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps has been
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OUR LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN comes
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ScHEHERAzADE. A novel by Florence
| Warden. New York: ID. Appleton & Co.
| This is a curious book, and the scenes are
cast in unpleasant places. The story is de-
| cidedly sensational, and as one of the char
acters in the plot is notorious figure in the
world of dissipation it is not altogether
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who affects orentalsm to an improbable
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and here is where so many things happen
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The ETHICAL IMPORT OF DARwINIsM. By
| Professor j. G.. Schurman of Cornell Uni
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| deals with matter and life, he recognizes
| the evil which has been caused by the
guesses that have been accepted along with
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searching scrutiny.
News american reprinD for October 22d
will show the English view of the trial
yacht-race, illustrations in connection with
the State of Ireland" "Our Home
less Poor in st. James Park at Midday"
the British Mission to Morocco and
g Sketches on the River Congo" " A
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THE October number of the Cosmopolitan
= is the handsomest and most interesting ye
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i trated article entitled The Passing of tn
r Buffalo" by William T. Hornaday, giving
. a graphic account of his recent buffalo-hun
n and showing how the buffalo have beer
v recklessly exterminated. George III. Fitcl
g describes the present condition of tn
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i furnishes an interesting article on Charlie
. Sumner; illustrated j. Henry Hage
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q Frank q. Carpenter gives interesting in
r formation about The Tours of the Presi
: dents" The First Jenny Lind Ticket,
Q Among the Indians" by Lee Meriwether
+ and " A Remedy for Poverty" by Richard